Google Offers and Boingo Wireless is jointly rolling out free Wi-Fi zone over 200 locations in New York City this summer. Their partnership will last from June 25 to September 7, 2012. That means, the population of Manhattan can taste the free Wi-Fi service now.
Google is working hard with Google Maps by adding newer features and expanding the uses of these maps, especially for businesses. The search engine giant has now released a new feature called ‘Google Maps Coordinate’ which allows you to coordinate and monitor your mobile workforce.
Last week, we have covered a news that “Communicating With Ethiopian People Using ‘Skype’ May Lead Them To Jail”. The head of Communication Affairs of Ethiopian Government has published a new statement about banning issue of the Skype, Google Talk and other uses of Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services. They said that the draft bill’s aim is to discourage illegal use of VoIP. Than means anyone can not make a call PC-to-PC or PC-to-phone by using VoIP.
Google has maintained a blog for the last 5 years dedicated to its software for Apple’s systems. Google has been offering Mac OS X and iOS versions of Google Chrome, Google Earth and a bunch of other applications. But recently Google has announced that it’s shutting down the Official Google Mac blog. Google has noted maintained that support for Mac and iOS by it’s main products has gone mainstream and the the need to maintain a separate channel for Apple platform support has deemed unnecessary. Support for Mac and iOS would be maintained through individual Google product blogs from now on.
Apple has been trying to sideline Google’s influence in iOS devices. A solid step by Apple to this end was the introduction of its own maps in iOS 6. However, Google is the long-time king of the mapping domain and obviously, isn’t going to give up so easily. This was manifest in the words of Google SVP who has now stated that ‘amazing Google Maps experience’ is soon coming to iOS devices.
A Texas investigation is going on in which it is being determined that whether or not Google has indulged in anti-competition practices. Google had been asked to submit documents which the attorney general says are an important part of evidence. In total, these comprise of 14,500 documents, according to AG Greg Abbott.
![[Tutorial] How To Hide Google Chrome’s Download Bar](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Google-Download-Bar-150x96.jpg)
When we download something using Google Chrome browser, we see the download files are listed in a downloads bar at the bottom of the screen. Those users who don’t like the download bar, as it is displayed until it is actively closed in the browser can easily hide it by following few simple steps.
Google Docs is already one of the most popular online collaboration tools when it comes to document writing and editing. However, not many people use the collaborating tools of Google Docs when they are using them. To ensure that users do so and to show them the power of Google Docs’ collaboration tools, Google has now introduced a wicked cool demo.